Louisville followed in the footsteps of its neighboring town Tuesday night by approving a maximum expenditure of $190,105 for preliminary design work on a "diverging diamond" interchange on the McCaslin Boulevard bridge over U.S. 36.

Superior trustees approved an identical amount for the interchange Monday.

The money from both municipalities is designed to get the $12.4 million project to 20 percent design stage and would address environmental permits. It would also pave the way for new Regional Transportation District bus lanes at the interchange.

The diverging diamond is a counterintuitive road design, in which motorists are temporarily funneled to the opposite side of the road so that all turns are unobstructed. There are only a handful of the interchanges in the country.

Transportation planners say it will help alleviate traffic on northbound McCaslin Boulevard at the left-turn ramp onto westbound U.S. 36.

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